Ah — I know the problem. We have not turned on community translation for Russian guides yet because we don't yet have a moderator that can review submissions. We're looking! If you know someone, reach out to sandra.hiller at ifixit.com. Once we get a system in place, we'll open all the guides up to community translation. In the meantime, we really need help translating the iFixit interface into Russian. Can you pitch in over here? https://translate.ifixit.com
I took care of it. He actually wasn't a spammer, but an overzealous security researcher. But the net effect is the same, and they should be more careful about not polluting the site with failed research attempts.
It depends on the guide. In this case, that guide requires reputation of 30k to approve edits. There aren't very many folks with that reputation level, so that means it's usually staff that approve them. We're pretty on top of it during the week. Since this is a French edit, we let our French translators approve them. I went ahead and approved them this time. But next time just hold tight, they'll get to it soon! We should probably look into lowering the rep requirements for translating. @mayer I'm not seeing any problems accepting it myself, but I'll take a look at the error logs.
You could make your own. I was hanging out with Adam Savage the other day and he made himself a wood holder for his bits. It's pretty handy. If you want an empty 64 bit case, we could probably track one down for you next time @kaykay sends out a package.
We do have some bug fixes coming to the android app — @tasp is working on that. We don't plan on adding better answers support to the app, though. I think if you're focused on Answers, then your better option is to use Chrome. We can and should push notifications from the website to your app. I'll see what we can do on that.
There's definitely overlap with the name of the certification. The reason for that is that the original Master Techs group was one of the inspirations for the name of the certification. And since they predated the cert, we didn't feel like we could take their name away! With this group, the 'For the actual master techs' tagline looks like a playful poke at some of our greybeards. We should definitely work on getting everyone certified!
Hey folks, So this is sort of (actually, pretty much completely) my fault. The reputation system limits you to 200 points per day, but we built an escape hatch into it. It didn't seem fair that the 30 points from an accepted answer should count against your daily limit — those accepted answers are really hard won! So we exempted them from the rep limit. (An aside for anyone observing and new to this: 'accepted' answers are when the original questioner says that the answer solved their problem. People frequently drive by, ask questions, and never come back. So these 'accepts' are valuable!) We also allow moderators to forcibly accept an answer, which is what @oldturkey03 was enthusiastically doing. I think there's an open question of how much we (the moderator team, which includes our staff) should be doing that. On the one hand, it pins a good answer to the top and awards the author. On the other hand, it's slightly misleading because it says 'CHOSEN SOLUTION'. When oldturkey bulk-accepted all of those answer...
Sorry about that, George! I'm not seeing anything like that myself. Try using a different web browser, or clearing your cookies and trying again. If that's still not working, let me know what browser you're using and we'll do some more investigation.
